PGAAMCC presents a versatile, multi-generational group of artists. This opening reception is for the exhibition Mothership to the Ancestral Plane curated by our Education Curator, Synatra Smith, Ph.D.

Mothership to the Ancestral Plane is an afro-futurist youth exhibition featuring art works created by students in PGAAMCC’s teen after-school program, Culture Keepers. After seven months of research and production, the students’ work demonstrates an afro-futuristic reality. These imaginings might be actualized as these young artists mature into adulthood, and technology continues to advance. The pieces were developed concurrently with the release of the Marvel film Black Panther, which provided an updated launching point from which the students could understand and execute the aesthetic.